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... to “boi/boyhood and mentorships . . . to resist phallic domination” (57); Marlon Riggs's dream meetings with Harriet Tubman; trans labor organizing on the factory floor in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues ; or the “sick sex” of intimacy throughout the AIDS crisis. More broadly, Hammer invokes unruly...

... the gaze of the camera at Austin’s nude body should confirm at least that this body is phallic, in fact it suggests once again that the body requires a prosthetic supplement. Like a drag-king strip act that culminates in the exposure not of the female body...

... drive toward proving the ultimate instability of meaning (itself a totalizing claim), for the specificity of possibilities an applied deconstruction can provide. The goal is not just to invoke even the queer polysemic against the phallic but instead to show what work various kinds of structuring...

... distinctions between eroticism and sex, and between phallic and non-­phallic modes of sexual- ity, enabling us as queer scholars to pursue what Jonathan Goldberg and Madhavi Menon term studies of “homohistory,” a way of developing histories of sexuality that are “invested in suspending determinate...

... queer play bound by a resolutely phallic economy whose subversion was generally limited to shifting or reconfiguring the phallus, never dismantling it as the demarcator of meaning — a defining feature of the hetero- masculinity that he wholly supported. José Esteban Muñoz (2009: 149) has called...

... from the latter half of the twentieth century: Pussy Galore. In the film Miss Galore, as she is politely referred to, is the alluringly phallic aviatrix, leader of a phalanx of female flyers (“Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus”—no relation, presumably, to Monty Python’s...

... directly from the publisher Published under license hy Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA Photocopying permitted by license only Printed in the United States of America 2 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN 8 GAY STUDIES male homosexual” (fixated on the phallic mother, denying sexual...

... recuperated in her work on the “paranoid Gothic” of a few years later. In this essay, they are still the highly orthodox set that derive from Freud’s early theorization of the oedipal, which Sedgwick characterizes as being, in the main, phallic, castrative, “inflictive...

... phallogocentrism in his critique of the metaphysics of presence (in Glas) —   “worshipping the light of reason, thinkers salute its phallic erection” (204) — Marder insists on the addition of “phyto to highlight how plants are involved in the twin- ing together of masculine sexuality with logos, and also...

..., streams of plurality always animate landscapes of totalization. But the geography of each novel is dominated by a moment that is all too much like Leo’s moment under the waterfall, inflictive, phallic, and conspicuously unut- terable: a horsewhipping in The (Diblos) Notebook and, in The Seraglio...

... that there is a certain inevitability to Cleaver’s sudden disidentification with Baldwin when castration is the only way in which to conceptualize white racial domination. If white supremacy can be thought only through the phallic economy of castration, black homosexuality...

... reversed Landa s own concerns, as portrayed in the above quotes: Landa had critiqued the phallic activities of Maya men in the penis- piercing rite, while Gibson had critiqued the anal penetration of Maya men by enemas handled by women. This essay seeks to analyze the fantasies of Landa and Gibson...

...). Whatever Freud does to stanch the flow of substitutions is regarded as ultimately overwhelmed by “a set of analogies and substitutions that rhetorically affirm the fundamental transferability of that [phallic property]” (62). Butler moves on to “The Mirror Stage” and “The Signification of the Phal...

... crucial links in this chain of replications were not publicly visible; there were few visitors to the Villa, though Höcker may have been one of them. But the collection as a whole was animated — we might even say that it was homoerotically phallicized — by such explicitly sexual...

..., disco became associated in the gay male cultural imagination with an idea of phallic eroticism and of promiscuity. The artwork for the relatively obscure album Slide demonstrates this (figs. 1 and 2). Playing off the original marketing strategy of the first Crisco Disco, the artwork picks up...

..., uncurious femininity and to visual, formal, and psychoanalytic constructions of phallic power, not least through Breillat’s refusal to cloak the male actors’ erections through the customary and mythologiz- ing logic of displacement. For Lacan, the phallus is “the signifier that is destined...

...-Called) Postcolonial studies . Ed. Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks and Fawzia Afzal-Kahn. Durham: Duke UP , in press. Boyarin , Daniel . Freud and the Phallic Sublime: Or, Circumcision and Whitepenis Envy. Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies . Ed. Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel...

...- ­exchanger. But what has happened to the masculine subject in this process, he whose body (and value) is so prominently displayed in Xenophon’s version of this queer economic arrangement of subjects and goods? In Alberti’s text, the body of the husband has disappeared. How — and why — does this phallic...

..., the phallic “fount of liberality” degenerates into just another negotiable penis. The fact that “Prodigalitie” has the potential to “exhaust” this “fount of liberality” and to “hurte” the Prince’s “successours” reinscribes in James’s discourse the language of illicit and excessive sexual...

... of psychoanalysis, such as Oedipus’s anxi- eties about his “lack of identity within a particular history and culture” (39), are subsumed in a phallic anxiety that, since Freud, has become the interpretive focus of Sophocles’ tragedy. In an innovative reading of Oedipus the King, DiPiero...